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WITCHCRAFT & OCCULT

“Many that believed came and confessed showing their deeds of curious

arts and books and burned them.” Acts 19:18-19

 

ASTROLOGERS: Hebrew ashshaph meaning stargazers

1. Leviticus 19:26 “Neither shall ye use enchantment nor observe times.”(Horoscope)

2. Daniel 2:10 “magician or astrologer.”

 

CHARMERS: Hebrew chabar meaning spells, hypnotist

1. Deuteronomy 18:11 “There shall not be found among you a charmer.”

2. Isaiah 19:3 “I will destroy the charmers.”

 

CONSULTER OF FAMILIAR SPIRITS: Hebrew shael meaning inquire

1. Deuteronomy 18:11 “There shall not found among you a consulter with familiar spirits.”

 

CURIOUS ARTS: Greek periergos meaning magic.

1. Acts 19:19 “Many of them also which used curious arts brought them and burned them.”

 

DEMONS: Greek daimon meaning evil spirits.

1. Leviticus 17:7 “Not sacrifice to demons.”

2. II Chronicles 11:15 “Rehoboam ordained priests for the demons.”

3. Deuteronomy 32:17, 19 “They sacrificed to demons, not to God, and when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them.”

4. Psalm 106:37 “They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.”

5. Zechariah 13:2 “I will cause the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.”

6. Matthew 4:9; Luke 4:7 “And the devil said unto Jesus, All these tings will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. If thou wilt worship me, all shall be thine.”

7. I Corinthians 1l:20-21 “They sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with demons. Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of demons.”

8. I Timothy 4:1 “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of demons.”

9. Revelation 13:4 “They worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast.”

10. Revelation 9:20 “And the rest of the men which wee not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:”

 

DIVINATION: Hebrew qesem meaning to cut off, divine sentence, fortune telling, divining rods.

1. Deuteronomy 18:10 “There shall not be found among you anyone that useth divination.”

2. Hosea 4:12 “My people ask counsel at their stocks, (Hebrew etts. meaning wood, tree) and their staff (Hebrew maqqel meaning rod) declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms have caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.”

3. Acts 16:16 “A certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:”

 

ENCHANTER: Hebrew gezar meaning to determine, to hiss, whisper, magic spell, magician

1. Deuteronomy 18:10 “There shall not be found among you any one who is an enchanter.”

2. Jeremiah 27:9 “Hearken not to your enchanters.”

 

FAMILIAR SPIRITS: Hebrew darash meaning to seek or ask, medium posed with spirit guide.

1. Leviticus 19:31 “Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.”

2. Leviticus 20:6 “The soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even se my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.”

3. Deuteronomy18:10 “There shall not be found among you any one with familiar spirits.

 

NECROMANCY: Hebrew darash meaning to seek or ask the dead

1. Deuteronomy 18:11 “There shall not be found among you a necromancer.”

2. Deuteronomy 26:14 “I have not given ought thereof for the dead; but I have hearkened to the voice of the Lord my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.”

3. Isaiah 9:19 “When they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? Yes! For the living to the dead? No!

 

SOOTHSAYER: Hebrew qacam meaning observer of times.

1. Joshua 13:22 “Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them.”

2. Micah 5:12 “I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:”

3. Daniel 2:27-28 “Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king; But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets.”

4. Acts 16:16 “And it came to pas, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:”

 

SORCERY: Hebrew keshaphim meaning to whisper a spell, to enchant, practice magic.

                     Greek magos meaning magician, magic, an enchanter with drugs.

                     Pharmakeus meaning spell giving potion.

1. Leviticus 19:26-28, 31 “Ye shall not use enchantment, nor observe times. You shall not print any marks upon you: I am the Lord. Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.”

2. Deuteronomy 18:9-11 “There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord.”

3. Malachi 3:5 “I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers.”

4. Acts 13:6f “And when Barnabas and Saul had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-jesus:”

5. Acts 8:8f “There was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one: This man is the great power of God. He had long time bewitched them with sorceries.”

6. Revelation 9:21 “Neither repented thy of their sorceries.”

7. Revelation 18:23 “By thy sorceries were all nations deceived.”

8. Revelation 22:15 “For without are sorcerers.”

 

TATTOOS, PRINT MARKS, CUTTING: Hebrew sarrteth a cutting, incision; Hebrew natham to give.

1. Leviticus 19:28 “Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor any marks upon you: I am the Lord:”

2. Leviticus 21:5 “They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.”

 

WITCHCRAFT: Hebrew qecem meaning divine sentence kashaph meaning practice magic, to whisper a spell, to enchant. Greek pharmakeia meaning magic sorcery, spell-giving potion.

1. Exodus 22:18 “Thou shalt suffer a witch to live.”

2. Leviticus 19:31 “Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.”

3. Leviticus 20:6, 27 “And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people. A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard shall surely be put to death.”

4. Deuteronomy 18:10 “There shall not be found among you anyone that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or as observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord.”

5. I Samuel 15:23 “For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.”

6. Galatians 5:19-20 “Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these;witchcraft…”

 

WIZARD: Hebrew yiddoniy meaning a ghost, a knowing one.

1. Leviticus 19:31 “Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.”

2. Leviticus 20:6, 27 “The soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among the people. A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death:”

3. Deuteronomy 18:10-12 “There shall not be found among you anyone who is a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination to the Lord:”

4. Isaiah 8:19 “And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? Yes! For the living to the dead? No!

 

PRACTICAL APPLICATION:

Horoscopes, voodoo, telepathy, ESP, Clairvoyance, charms, trances, fortune-telling, psychic powers, séances, ouiji boards, charms, trances, hypnotism, magic, devil/demon worship, Satanism, spiritism, etc.